Green’s Dictionary of Slang

sot-weed n.

tobacco.

1698		N. Ward London Spy I 12: We had each of us stuck in our Mouths a Pipe of Sotweed.
1702		T. Brown Letters from the Dead to the Living in Works (1760) II 190: By that time we had every one ramm’d a full charge of sot-weed into our infernal guns.
1705–07		N. Ward Hudibras Redivivus II:8 7: I sat me down amidst a Crew / Of Old and Young, the Lord knows who! / Some puffing Sot-weed o’er their Glasses, / In one another’s Parchment Faces.
1713		W. King York Spy 9: I’d [...] call’d for a Pint of Sir John Barleycorn’s best Stingo, and a Penny-worth of Sots-weed.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 78: Sot Weed, tobacco.